I.B.Tauris is seeking book proposals for a new academic book series: I.B.Tauris Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Persian Literature.

 

This series provides a forum for cutting-edge scholarship from established and emerging scholars in the field of Persian literary studies. It publishes monographs that challenge received understandings of the primary source material and offer new ways of approaching both familiar and obscure texts. The series editor and advisory board encourage submissions from authors who adopt a comparative approach to the study of Persian literature that spans genres, periods, regions, and/or languages, however, studies of distinct periods and individual poets (or clusters of poets) will also be considered. The temporal scope of the series is the first millennium of literary production in New Persian, circa 850-1850, encompassing the medieval (or pre-modern) and the early modern periods. The geographical range is the full expanse of the Persianate world, from Anatolia and the Caucasus in the west, through Iran and Afghanistan, to Central and South Asia in the east.

 

Series Editor

Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, Associate Professor of Persian Literature, University of Oxford, UK

Advisory Board

Leili Anvar, Associate Professor of Persian, INALCO, Paris, France

Shahzad Bashir, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities, Brown University, USA

Alyssa Gabbay, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA

Sunil Sharma, Professor of Persianate and Comparative Literature, Boston University, USA

Christine van Ruymbeke, Ali Reza and Mohamed Soudavar Reader in Persian Studies, University of Cambridge, UK

 

Peer Review and Publishing Process

All books in the series are subject to strict, double-blind peer review. It is anticipated that each book will be between 80,000 and 100,000 words in length. Monographs in the series would first appear in hardback, followed by a guaranteed paperback 18 months after the publication date.

 

Forthcoming Books

Persian and Arabic Literary Communities in the Seventeenth Century: Migrant Poets between Arabia, Iran, and India by James White

 

To submit a proposal, please contact Professor Dominic Brookshaw dominic.brookshaw@orinst.ox.ac.uk  or Rory Gormley, Commissioning Editor for Middle Eastern History and Culture rory.gormley@bloomsbury.com. Further information on submitting a proposal can be found at: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/academic/for-authors/submit-a-book-proposal/